Rejecting historicism it had a desire to enhance the competitiveness of German products, many of its patrons had English contacts.
Tricomi combines first-rate theoretical debate and textual analysis to explore the practical application of his suggestions for a new direction in literary historicism.
In America the social sciences were long dominated by german historicism.
The book begins with an astute assessment of the problems facing historicist practices and proposes a modified critical methodology, " cultural historicism.
Through the Israelite prophets it passed to Jesus and to Christianity, to Islam and then more recently to Western historicism and political utopianism.